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Japan's new banknotes

TOKYO, Japan, July 3 Kyodo - Video taken on July 3, 2024, at the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo shows the front sides of Japan's new banknotes, which began to be issued the same day. The banknotes feature industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), widely known as the "father of Japanese capitalism," educator Umeko Tsuda (1864-1929), and physician and bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato (1853-1931). (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Bread featuring Japan's new banknotes

A woman shows three slices of bread resembling Japan's new banknotes at a food and sundry goods maker and retailer in Tokyo's Kita Ward on July 2, 2024, on the eve of their issuance. The bread was made by Shibusawa Ippinkan, named after Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), widely known as the "father of Japanese capitalism," and represents (from top to bottom) a 10,000 yen note, a 5,000 yen note and a 1,000 yen note, featuring Shibusawa, educator Umeko Tsuda (1864-1929), and physician and bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato (1853-1931), respectively.(Kyodo)

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CORRECTED: Bread featuring Japan's new banknotes

A woman shows three slices of bread resembling Japan's new banknotes at a food and sundry goods maker and retailer in Tokyo's Kita Ward on July 2, 2024, on the eve of their issuance. The bread was made by Shibusawa Ippinkan, named after Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), widely known as the "father of Japanese capitalism," and represents (from top to bottom) a 10,000 yen note, a 5,000 yen note and a 1,000 yen note, featuring Shibusawa, educator Umeko Tsuda (1864-1929), and physician and bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato (1853-1931), respectively.

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Japan's new banknotes

Photo taken on July 3, 2024, at the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo shows the front sides of Japan's new banknotes, which began to be issued the same day. The banknotes feature (from top to bottom) industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), widely known as the "father of Japanese capitalism," educator Umeko Tsuda (1864-1929), and physician and bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato (1853-1931). (Pool photo)

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Japan's new banknotes

File photo taken on April 14, 2023, at the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo shows samples of the front sides of Japan's new banknotes, which began to be issued on July 3, 2024. The banknotes feature (from top to bottom) industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), widely known as the "father of Japanese capitalism," educator Umeko Tsuda (1864-1929), and physician and bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato (1853-1931).

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Japan's new banknotes

File photo taken on April 14, 2023, at the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo shows samples of the backs of Japan's new banknotes, which began to be issued on July 3, 2024. The banknotes feature (from top to bottom) industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), widely known as the "father of Japanese capitalism," educator Umeko Tsuda (1864-1929), and physician and bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato (1853-1931).

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Japan PM Kishida in Ghana

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) poses for a photo in front of a relief of prominent Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Accra, Ghana, on May 1, 2023. Noguchi died of yellow fever while conducting research on the viral disease in Accra in 1928.

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Japan PM Kishida in Ghana

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) poses for a photo in front of a relief of prominent Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Accra, Ghana, on May 1, 2023. Noguchi died of yellow fever while conducting research on the viral disease in Accra in 1928.

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Japan's new banknotes

The Bank of Japan reveals new banknotes on April 14, 2023, which will be released in 2024, featuring figures from Japan's modern history. The new bills (from top to bottom) feature industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), widely known as the "father of Japanese capitalism," educator Umeko Tsuda (1864-1929) and physician and bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato (1853-1931).

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Ceremony to honor Hideyo Noguchi held in NY

NEW YORK, United States - A ceremony to honor the life of Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi is held on May 21, 2014, the anniversary of his death, at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, with the attendance of Yoshio Kano (far L), executive secretary of the recently established Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Society, and Sumio Kusaka (2nd from R), consul general of Japan in New York.

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Photographer Hori's works disclosed to media

MATSUE, Japan - Photographs taken by Japanese photographer Ichiro Hori (1879-1969), including portraits of Japanese Adm. Heihachiro Togo (L front) and Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi's wife Mary (2nd from L, front), are disclosed to the media at Matsue History Museum in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 24, 2012. The photos, kept at the home of Kosaku Sano, Hori's nephew, in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, are scheduled to be exhibited at the museum from March 20, 2012.

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Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito in Ghanaian

ACCRA, GHANA - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (R) visits a laboratory used by Dr. Hideyo Noguchi at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana, on March 8, 2010. The Japanese bacteriologist died in Ghana in 1928 of yellow fever while conducting research into the disease.

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Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito in Ghanaian

ACCRA, GHANA - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (L) looks at a statue of Dr. Hideyo Noguchi at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana, where the Japanese bacteriologist died in 1928 of yellow fever while conducting research into the disease, on March 8, 2010. The Japanese crown prince is on a three-day official visit to Ghana.

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New notes to be issued in Nov.

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese Finance Ministry plans to issue three kinds of new notes in November using forgery prevention technology. The 10,000 yen note (top) features Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901), educator, writer and propagator of Western knowledge in the Meiji period (1868-1912), the 5,000 yen note (middle) Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896), female writer of the Meiji period, and the 1,000 yen note (below) Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928), bacteriologist.

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Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito in Ghanaian

ACCRA, GHANA - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (R) visits a laboratory used by Dr. Hideyo Noguchi at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana, on March 8, 2010. The Japanese bacteriologist died in Ghana in 1928 of yellow fever while conducting research into the disease. (Kyodo)

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Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito in Ghanaian

ACCRA, GHANA - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (L) looks at a statue of Dr. Hideyo Noguchi at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana, where the Japanese bacteriologist died in 1928 of yellow fever while conducting research into the disease, on March 8, 2010. The Japanese crown prince is on a three-day official visit to Ghana. (Kyodo)

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Photographer Hori's works disclosed to media

MATSUE, Japan - Photographs taken by Japanese photographer Ichiro Hori (1879-1969), including portraits of Japanese Adm. Heihachiro Togo (L front) and Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi's wife Mary (2nd from L, front), are disclosed to the media at Matsue History Museum in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 24, 2012. The photos, kept at the home of Kosaku Sano, Hori's nephew, in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, are scheduled to be exhibited at the museum from March 20, 2012. (Kyodo)

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Nobel Prize winner Omura talks about bacteriologist Kitasato

Photo taken in Tokyo on April 9, 2019, shows Satoshi Omura, professor emeritus at Kitasato University and 2015 Nobel laureate in medicine, posing in front of a bronze statue of the private university's founder Shibasaburo Kitasato, a bacteriologist known as a co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in the 19th century. Kitasato, nominated for the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901, will be featured on Japan's new 1,000 yen bill set for introduction in fiscal 2024. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel Prize winner Omura talks about bacteriologist Kitasato

Photo taken in Tokyo on April 9, 2019, shows Satoshi Omura, professor emeritus at Kitasato University and 2015 Nobel laureate in medicine, speaking about the private university's founder Shibasaburo Kitasato, a bacteriologist known as a co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in the 19th century. Kitasato, nominated for the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901, will be featured on Japan's new 1,000 yen bill set for introduction in fiscal 2024. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New Japanese 1,000 yen banknote

Photo shows the front (top) and back of a sample of the new 1,000 yen bill featuring physician and bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato (1853-1931) to be introduced in fiscal 2024. The Japanese government said April 9, 2019, that the country's banknotes will be redesigned for the first time in two decades in 2024. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New Japanese 1,000 yen banknote

Photo taken at the Japanese Finance Ministry in Tokyo on April 9, 2019, shows the front (top) and back of a sample of the new 1,000 yen bill featuring physician and bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato (1853-1931) to be introduced in fiscal 2024. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ghana president visits Hideyo Noguchi museum

Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo speaks to reporters during his visit to the Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Museum in Inawashiro, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 13, 2018. The prominent Japanese bacteriologist died of yellow fever in the British colony of Gold Coast, now Ghana, in 1928 while conducting research on the disease. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scholarship to be launched in honor of bacteriologist Noguchi

Timothy O'Connor, executive vice president of Rockefeller University, gives a speech in front of the grave of Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928) in New York on May 21, 2017. A scholarship for Japanese medical students will be launched in honor of Noguchi, who died of yellow fever in Ghana while conducting research into the disease. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scholarship to be launched in honor of bacteriologist Noguchi

Timothy O'Connor, executive vice president of Rockefeller University, gives a speech in front of the grave of Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928) in New York on May 21, 2017. A scholarship for Japanese medical students will be launched in honor of Noguchi, who died of yellow fever in Ghana while conducting research into the disease. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New notes to be issued in Nov.

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese Finance Ministry plans to issue three kinds of new notes in November using forgery prevention technology. The 10,000 yen note (top) features Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901), educator, writer and propagator of Western knowledge in the Meiji period (1868-1912), the 5,000 yen note (middle) Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896), female writer of the Meiji period, and the 1,000 yen note (below) Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928), bacteriologist. (Kyodo)